4. The John Train Salon DeliveredPerjured Testimony in
the 'Get LaRouche' Trials

Among the crucial evidence illegally withheld from defense attorneys in both
the Boston and Alexandria federal prosecutions of Lyndon LaRouche and associates
was a June 26, 1986 FBI memorandum from the SAC Boston to the FBI Director. The
document was only released, in redacted form, on April 5, 1991, as the result of
a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by LaRouche.

The documents is now on file with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in
Richmond, Va. as part of the 2255 motion still pending on appeal.

The FBI memo constituted another critical piece of evidence of the role of
the John Train ``salon'' in not only orchestrating a government-linked slander
campaign against LaRouche, but in also foisting perjured testimony for use by
federal prosecutors. The withholding of the document constituted yet another
instance of fraud upon the court by federal attorneys. Had the three-page FBI
memo been made available to defense attorneys in Boston or Alexandria, many of
the most important prosecution witnesses--all former LaRouche associates--would
have been hopelessly discredited as witting perjurers, in some cases exposed as
``victims'' of ``deprogramming'' and other forms of behavior modification
carried out by federal agents, by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
(ADL), by the ADL-allied nationwide kidnap-for-hire ring, Cult Awareness Network
(CAN), and by key players in the Train salon, including NBC-TV producer Pat
Lynch and Dennis King.

The FBI document revealed that: ``Over the past three months, through
contacts developed by the UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S (USA'S) OFFICE, Boston, and
Bureau OCPA, Boston has identified a series of disaffected former LAROUCHE
insiders who have tentatively expressed their willingness to provide
information....

``On June 22, 1986, Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) JOHN J. MARKHAM
was introduced to one of these cooperating disaffected LAROUCHE members, [next
ten lines of text redacted]

``From this contact [redacted] and from interviewing several other former
LAROUCHE supporters, Boston feels that it is fair to characterize them as
deprogrammed members of a cult.''

The reference to ``Bureau OCPA'' as a source of the ``disaffected former
LAROUCHE insiders'' provided another critical piece of evidence withheld by
Boston and Alexandria prosecutors. The FBI's Office of Congressional and Public
Affairs, headed by Assistant FBI Director William Baker, had been contacted on
April 2, 1986 by NBC-TV producer Lynch and provided with information about
prospective witnesses against LaRouche who could be produced for a then-ongoing
Boston federal grand jury. The Lynch call was memorialized in a memo dated April
4, 1986 from ASAC Edward W. Ludemann to SAC Boston. That document was also
withheld from defense attorneys and only declassified on April 17, 1991 as the
result of the same LaRouche FOIA case. It, too, is now on file at the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals.

NBC-TV producer Pat Lynch was a pivotal participant in the John Train salon
sessions, as was New York City ``journalist'' and paid ADL informant Dennis
King. Both attended the initial April 23, 1983 gathering of the Train-assembled
collection of 25 journalists, ADL officials and government agents, where a
string of libelous slanders against LaRouche was mapped out. At the first of the
three known Train salon meetings, Train personally helped arrange financing for
King's booklength slander of LaRouche via the League for Industrial Democracy
(LID) and the U.S. intelligence-linked Smith-Richardson Foundation.

As a direct outgrowth of the Train gathering, Lynch produced the March 1984
20-minute ``First Camera'' TV news magazine slander of LaRouche, which provided
pretext-cover for the FBI's launching of a national security probe of the
LaRouche organization under the guidelines of Executive Order 12333.

The first formal activation of the national security probe of LaRouche came
at the January 15, 1983 meeting of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board (PFIAB), where three close allies of Henry Kissinger--Edward Bennett
Williams, David Abshire and Leo Cherne--all pressed for a formal probe of
LaRouche on the phony grounds that LaRouche had suspected hostile foreign
intelligence ties.

The Train salon ``active measures'' propaganda campaign was instigated as
part of the PFIAB effort, a fact corroborated by the presence of PFIAB
consultant Roy Godson at at least one of the three known Train meetings.
According to two other participants, the Train salon sessions were also attended
by other unnamed government agents, believed to be representing the FBI and the
IRS. The PFIAB discussion of LaRouche was itself the outgrowth of five months of
intensive personal lobbying by Henry Kissinger, who first approached FBI
Director William Webster to launch a pretext prosecution of LaRouche in July
1982 at the annual meeting of the Bohemian Grove. The evidence of the
Kissinger-Webster correspondence was never provided to LaRouche attorneys by
government prosecutors, despite its obvious exculpatory nature. It, too, was
only declassified and released via FOIA suits.

Despite evidence eventually produced regarding the PFIAB meeting and
eyewitness accounts of the John Train salon sessions, throughout the federal
prosecutions, government attorneys denied that there ever was an E.O. 12333
probe of LaRouche. However, on July 6, 1989, once again as the result of an FOIA
suit, the FBI finally acknowledged that it had maintained an entire
investigative file on the LaRouche organization that remained classified under
E.O. 12333. Under E.O. 12333, which only dealt with foreign counterintelligence
and international terrorism, not even the case number of the investigation could
be declassified. LaRouche attorneys had contended during the Boston and
Alexandria trials that the government had run unjustified national security
probes of LaRouche as a means of illegally disrupting the legitimate political
activities of LaRouche and his political association. The contents of the E.O.
12333 files on LaRouche and associates are still classified to this day.

Defector and Grand Jury Data

Following the contact with FBI Deputy Director Baker, but prior to the June
26, 1986 FBI memo, Lynch and King collaborated to pen a lengthy smear, which was
published in the {Wall Street Journal} on May 27, 1986. The article was based on
confidential Boston federal grand jury material that should never have been made
available to Lynch and King. It was also based on interviews with two of the
LaRouche organization ``defectors,'' who would later play pivotal roles in the
federal and state prosecutions.

The two ``defectors,'' Konstanin Kalimtgis and Charles Tate, were identified
in the articles by pseudonyms, but the content of their interviews, the
descriptions provided by King and Lynch, and their subsequent role in the
prosecutions, made their identities evident to LaRouche attorneys.

The Lynch-King {Wall Street Journal} ``story,'' one of a dozen major media
slanders against LaRouche that were commissioned at the Train salon sessions,
attended by U.S. government officials as well as reporters and at least one ADL
employee, Mira Lansky Boland, provided nearly verbatim formulations that would
be used by federal and state prosecutors in Boston, Alexandria, New York City
and Roanoke.

Tate, Kalimtgis, and a third former LaRouche associate, Steven Bardwell,
would provide government agents with access to a score of ex-members of various
LaRouche organizations who would be screened and subjected to intensive
psychological conditioning by government specialists as well as agents of the
purportedly ``private'' organization, CAN. The result would be a pattern of
knowingly perjured testimony by these former LaRouche associates at all of the
subsequent grand juries and trials.

Train Salon Spawned Halloween Party

On October 6, 1986, 400 federal, state, and county police descended on
Leesburg, Va. ostensibly to serve two search warrants and four arrest warrants
against longtime LaRouche associates. FBI officials, as well as Loudoun County
deputy sheriff Donald Moore, attempted unsuccessfully to get U.S. Attorney's
authorization for a search of a farm outside of Leesburg where Lyndon LaRouche
was then residing.

Slightly more than three weeks after the raid, approximately 40 of the
former LaRouche associates gathered at the Hastings-on-Hudson, New York home of
Steven and Gail Bardwell. The guest of honor at the Halloween party was
Kalimtgis, who flew in from Florida for the event. According to one eyewitness
account, the purpose of the party, as spelled out in a several-page invitation
and handout provided to all attendees, was to line up witnesses for the pending
trial of the LaRouche organization in federal court in Boston.

The Halloween event was a direct outgrowth of the Train salon. It was the
sources drawn together by Lynch, King and the ADL--on behalf of the
PFIAB-ordered E.O. 12333 ``active measures'' campaign against LaRouche and
associates--who organized the event and played the pivotal role in lining up new
witnesses for the prosecution. By the time the Halloween party took place, a
number of the ``insider'' witnesses had already been brought before the Boston
grand jury.

Bolstering the eyewitness account was a series of handouts distributed to
all of the party guests. One of the handouts, marked ``GAME ONE,'' was labeled
``Pin the Rap on LaRouche.'' It read:

``BACKGROUND: Lyndon H. LaRouche (aka L. Marcus) has been implicated in a
worldwide confidence scheme involving a Panamanian drug-runner. Many of his
shells (NCLC: dba USLP, EAP, LODF, COL, etc.) have been indicted by federal
prosecutors. One of these prosecutors who has high hopes of burying the undead,
will be taking testimony.

``RULES: You have one minute before the cameras to testify as to the single
most serious crime committed by L. LaRouche.

``OBJECTIVE: ... to further the career objectives of the prosecutor who is
serious about burying the undead.''

One of the former LaRouche associates, Mark Stahlman, did in fact videotape
the ``party.'' Eyewitnesses reported that Kalimtgis, one of the ``sources'' for
the Train salon-foisted Lynch-King {Wall Street Journal} story, spoke
individually with all of the party guests, sizing up their willingness to
cooperate with AUSA Markham in the Boston and later Alexandria prosecutions.

Yet, when attorneys representing LaRouche in the federal trial in Boston
attempted to interrogate government witnesses Tate and the two Bardwells about
the Halloween event, all three suffered memory lapses and claimed alternately
that the Stahlman videotape had been destroyed, or that the videotaping had
never taken place.

Nevertheless, the evidence presented to the jury about the Halloween session
had a significant impact on the jurors. After over 90 days of trial, interrupted
by a judge's order for a renewed search of government files for exculpatory
evidence withheld during the pre-trial proceedings, the Boston trial ended in a
mistrial. Jurors, stung by the government's abuse of prosecution, polled
themselves after being dismissed, and convened a press conference to announce
that they would have acquitted all the defendants on all 124 counts in the
indictment. The jurors had been convinced that if any crimes had been committed,
they were committed by the government against the LaRouche movement.

Six months after the Boston mistrial, through fraudulent means, the
government had shifted the case to Alexandria, Va. under a ``new'' indictment.
Throughout the Alexandria trial, Federal District Court Judge Albert V. Bryan,
Jr. blocked defense attorneys from pursuing questions about the Halloween party,
claiming that brief testimony by Charles Tate was sufficient to show the jury
that there was malice towards the defendants.

Malice or Witness Tampering?

Yet, what the June 26, 1986 FBI memorandum, which was withheld from defense
attorneys, showed, was that the Halloween party participants were not merely
hostile to the LaRouche movement. According to the FBI document, the witnesses
were officially considered ``deprogrammed members of a cult.''

The FBI formulation was a straightforward admission that the ``insider''
witnesses had been tampered with, via aversive behavior modification techniques
broadly labeled ``deprogramming.'' For the most part, the tracking and initial
conditioning of the ``defector'' witnesses was handled by participants in the
Train salon, including Lynch, who was already in active contact with the Cult
Awareness Network, a nationwide kidnapping and deprogramming outfit, at the time
of the 1984 LaRouche civil suit versus NBC and the ADL.

Beginning in September 1992, details of the ``deprogramming'' effort began
to surface with the indictments of CAN operator Galen Kelly, Loudoun County
deputy sheriff Donald Moore and several others, on charges they plotted to
kidnap LaRouche associate Lewis du Pont Smith, an heir to the DuPont family
fortune. Smith's father, Newbold Smith, was one of the individuals indicted.

Although Kelly, Moore, Smith and the others were acquitted on the conspiracy
case, Kelly and Moore were later convicted of kidnapping in another case. Kelly
is in jail and Moore is awaiting sentencing.

The CAN prosecutions unearthed details of the ``deprogramming'' techniques
used by such individuals as deputy sheriff Moore and Galen Kelly to ``prepare''
witnesses for the LaRouche trials in Boston and Alexandria. The methods included
sleep deprivation, encounter sessions, sensory deprivation, physical and sexual
abuse.

Chain of Command Under E.O. 12333

The slander and witness-tampering efforts of the John Train-led salon were
sanctioned by the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, under the
pretext of Executive Order 12333, giving government intelligence agencies
extra-legal authority to deal with foreign intelligence agents and international
terrorists. The guidelines were wittingly abused under heavy pressure from
Henry Kissinger personally.

Wall Street broker and Anglophile intelligence operator John Train took
charge of key aspects of the propaganda and witness tampering in the Get
LaRouche drive beginning in April 1983, working in league with the Project
Democracy apparatus inside the Reagan-Bush administration. Train operated under
the illegally invoked umbrella of Executive Order 12333.

Through key salon figures including NBC-TV producer Pat Lynch, and with
financial backing of tax exempt foundations later implicated in the entire
Iran-Contra ``secret parallel government,'' such as the Smith-Richardson
Foundation and the Mellon-Scaife funds, Train oversaw the recruiting and
``aversive conditioning'' of key ``insider'' witnesses who appeared at every
subsequent LaRouche-linked trial.

Evidence detailing this top-down frameup was systematically withheld from
defense attorneys, constituting a serious case of fraud upon the court.